Herman Melville Quotes

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

I wait for something good or something that will be fun. But they've got to pay me if they want me to work.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my area.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.